Sarah Seager

Sarah Seager (born in 1958 Springfield, Massachusetts) is a conceptual artist associated with the California Conceptualism movement of the late 1980s through mid-1990s based out of Los Angeles, California. She is known for making "clean works, many of them white, in which objects seem not so much removed from function as between functions" as described by Michael Brenson of the New York Times.[1] She is also known for her published art work by the title "Excuse my Dust" that was done in conjunction with the curators of the Smithsonian Institution.[2]

Sarah Seager
Axe Handles, 1991
BornJanuary 1958
Springfield, Massachusetts
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of California, Berkeley, University of California, Los Angeles
MovementConceptual art
AwardsNominated for a Louis Comfort Tiffany Award, 2011

Life

Sarah Seager was born in January, 1958, and is the second child of David and Gretchen Seager. She lived for brief periods in Massachusetts, Florida, Texas, then Southern California, where she currently resides. Sarah received her Bachelor of Arts with Honors, at the University of California, Berkeley, in Spring of 1982. She was awarded a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in the spring of 1987.[3]

Solo Exhibitions

2002

  • 188 loose elements, things like...., LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA[4]

1999

  • The World Of Sculpture, (theater of invisibles), - Galerie Michael Janssen - Köln, Cologne (closed, 2007)

1998

  • Proposal for installation with sarong pants, Claremont Graduate University (catalogue)[5]

1995

  • Proposals, Tanja Grunert Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1994

  • Proposals, 1301PE Santa Monica, California

1993

  • Excuse My Dust, 1301PE Santa Monica, California

1992

1991

  • Luhring Augustine, New York, New York
  • Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles, California

1989

  • Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Collections

References
  1. Brenson, Michael (1990-10-19). "Review/Art; In the Arena of the Mind, at the Whitney". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  2. "Excuse my dust [art original] / Sarah Seager". 2012-02-26. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  3. Cathy Curtis (March 12, 1992). "Pasadena Artist Sarah Seager Reveals a Cover-Up: Lecture: At talkin Newport Beach she explains why her works in 'Participation of Letters' exhibit are white". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved April 16, 2018.
  4. ArtFacts. "Sarah Seager | Artist". ArtFacts. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  5. WILSON, WILLIAM (1998-09-30). "Claremont Colleges Offer Rooms With Views of L.A." Los Angeles Times. ISSN 0458-3035. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  6. "Sarah Seager". The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  7. "Sarah Seager · SFMOMA". www.sfmoma.org. Retrieved 2019-01-19.

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